C I A non-profit venture capital company

[Peter Fairbrother]

> Peter Gutmann at pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz wrote:
[snip]
> Would it make you feel better if
> <whatever the company was> had announced that they'd received a DARPA Research
> Grant instead of CIA VC (with both being exactly the same thing, just given
> different names)?

Not exactly. Research grants don't give equity in a company to the granter,
only rights to the results.

And I can't call In-Q-Tel, Inc a VC. They don't even call themselves a VC.
In case you missed the title of the thread, it's not-for-profit.  And their
stated main purpose is to gain intelligence-gathering technology. All the
commercial considerations are secondary to that.

Even if their motives are as pure as snow now, it won't be long before the
CIA realise they could log all traffic through SafeWeb servers. Unencrypted.
Capabilities are rarely left unused, and a popular anonymiser would be a big
target.

Peter